Potassium Carbonate → HCID 20193577, compound

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Anhydrous potassium carbonate (17.7 g., 0.128 mole) is added to a solution of 6,7-dichloro-2-cyclopentylmethyl-2,3-dihydro-5-hydroxy-2-methyl-1H-inden-1-one (13.35 g., 0.0426 mole) in dry dimethylformamide (60 ml.) The suspension is stirred for 1 hour at room temperature, cooled to 15° C. and then trifluoromethanesulfonyl chloride is added at 15°-18° C. After stirring for 1 hour at room temperature, the reaction mixture is poured into ice water (700 ml.). The oil that separates is extracted with ether (125 ml). The combined organic extracts are washed with water, dried over magnesium sulfate and concentrated in vacuo to obtain the amber, oily product (18.8 g.), which is used in the next step without further purification.

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